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How does a project get to be a year late? . . . One day at a
time.

—Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

As work slips and the project deadline looms, engineers work very hard and get
little credit. The idea of rigorous testing is squeezed out in a mad rush to get
something passable out the door on time. Bad estimates are a prime cause of this
software circus. They foster managers' incorrect assumptions about the
difficulty of the development work, since they have no way to know the schedule
was incorrect in the first place. When we make an estimate, it is therefore
essential to get it right.[5]

IT'S ALL ABOUT PLANNING

The development team was getting quite large, and our working space had become really cramped. After a lot of effort, a new office was ...

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